The Revolving Door: Coming in and Going Out

For the last 23 months I have worked at Turner Construction Company. I came into the construction industry by way of beginning my career in the non-profit industry. Yesterday reality bit me. I was called into my review and at that time, my life would change. To make a long story short this is what I was told:

Today will be your last day."

It was like I just got punched in the face by Calzeghe and for a while I sat there and bled profusely. Story, to be continued....

Hu, Obama discuss China-US relations

Chinese President Hu Jintao and US president-elect Barack Obama Saturday discussed in a telephone conversation relations between China and the United States and major international issues of common concern, including the ongoing global financial crisis.

In the telephone conversation, Hu expressed appreciation to Obama for emphasizing in his election campaign speeches the great importance of China-US relations, and for advocating the strengthening of China-US cooperation in jointly responding to global challenges and in sharing global development opportunities.

Hu pointed out that since the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries 30 years ago, bilateral relations have generally kept developing despite setbacks, scoring hard-earned achievements and bringing about tangible interests to both nations.

As the largest developing nation and the largest developed nation, China and the United States share extensive common interests on issues related to world peace and development, and both assume important responsibility in this regard, Hu said.

In the new historical period of time, China is willing to maintain high-level exchange with the United States and also contacts at all levels, continue strategic dialogue with the United States, increase exchange and cooperation between the two countries in all fields, and strengthen the exchange of opinion and coordination with the United States on major international and regional issues, the Chinese president noted.

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No Job Is Finished UNTIL The Paper Work Is Done: Black Man Given Nation's Worst Job

NOVEMBER 5, 2008 ISSUE 44*45

WASHINGTON African-American man Barack Obama, 47, was given the least-desirable job in the entire country Tuesday when he was elected president of the United States of America. In his new high-stress, low-reward position, Obama will be charged with such tasks as completely overhauling the nation's broken-down economy, repairing the crumbling infrastructure, and generally having to please more than 300 million Americans and cater to their every whim on a daily basis. As part of his duties, the black man will have to spend four to eight years cleaning up the messes other people left behind. The job comes with such intense scrutiny and so certain a guarantee of failure that only one other person even bothered applying for it. Said scholar and activist Mark L. Denton, "It just goes to show you that, in this country, a black man still can't catch a break." Read simililar articles, here

Taking Care of Business Obama: U.S. faces 'greatest economic challenge'

If you thought President-elect Barack Obama was going to wait until January 2009 to address the state of the economy well you can forgetaboutit :)  He's coming out of the blocks quickly and taking his position as a world leader seriously.

President Obama held his first press conference as "president-elect" stressing that the focus of his efforts would be the struggling middle class.

We need a rescue plan for the middle class that invests in immediate efforts to create jobs provides relief to families that are watching their paychecks shrink and their life savings disappear," Obama said in his opening statement before taking questions.

We are facing the greatest economic challenge of our lifetime, and we must act swiftly to resolve them," he added, while also deferring to President Bush and his economic team, noting that the country has only one government and one president at a time.


"This morning, we woke to more sobering news about the state of our economy," Obama said in his opening statement. The 240,000 jobs lost in October marks the 10th consecutive month that our economy has shed jobs. In total, we've lost nearly 1.2 million jobs this year and more than 10 million Americans are now unemployed. Tens of millions of families are struggling to figure out how to pay the bills and stay in their homes."

I have to give it to him.  Even though he is not addressing homelessness directly, he understands that Washington must begin to undo the barriers preventing Americans from employment and to focus on keeping people in their homes. I can't even recall if President Bush has even said that we are in a "recession" now he has said "crisis", however, Barack Obama is addressing this country one issue at a time and by that I mean he trying to keep people in their homes. Amen!




Do you approve this message by President Barack Obama? Question:  What exactly is the "middle class"???

Talk about charisma: Barack Obama Brushes Washington off!

This video was prior to his Presidential win.  Barack says:

Washington is always the last to get the news. Washington hasn't gotten the news yet that the people want something different...they want CHANGE."

Well what was the issue with the debate with Hillary Clinton?  Obama says:

It took 45 mins before they started talking about a single issued that matters to the American people.  45 minutes before we heard about health care, 45 minutes before we heard about Iraq, 45 minutes before we heard about gas prices. Now I don't blame Washington for this because that's just how Washington is..."

Watch the rest here...that man has definately got talent: